Amy Campos

Amy Campos the founder and principal of ACA (Amy Campos Architect) and holds a tenure-track professorship in the Interior Design Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work focuses on critical issues of durability and design with an emphasis on full-scale installation and fabrication. The work spans a variety of scales and platforms from urban to architectural and interiors to object and furniture design, as well as critical writing.

Prior to establishing ACA, Campos’s professional experience includes working as a senior designer and project manager at Atema Architecture in New York as well as with SHoP Architects and Brian Healy Architects, among others in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Florence, Italy.

Campos has taught design for 10 years in Architecture, Urban design, Interior design, Visual and Critical Studies and 3D foundational studies at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to joining CCA’s faculty, she has most recently taught at the Pratt Institute and Columbia University. At CCA, Campos is currently teaching sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level Interior Design and Materiality studios, sophomore Architectural studios, as well as the Visual and Critical Studies “Sites” graduate seminar.

Campos is a registered architect in the state of New York, and has been LEED accredited since 2004. She received her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.